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Software developer with 10+ years of enterprise experience focused on DevOps/SysOps and backend web software. Thrive to provide reliable, cost-effective solutions, help his team with relevant tooling, mindful of quality and security aspects.
Now established in Canada, thriving on expanding existing enterprise software with containerization.
Work Experience
Relic Entertainment
DevOps Programmer / Team lead
2019 Vancouver, Canada
- Initially on the Server team, focused and gradually leading automation efforts on the Azure infrastructure hosting their software. Major contributions on deployment consistency, just- in-time permissions, tooling, and monitoring. (Python, Infrastructure-as-code, Docker...)
- Maintained and applied similar improvements to AWS infrastructure.
- Leading efforts to move Server infrastructure to Kubernetes and Terraform – overhauling networking, monitoring, and RBAC along the way.
- Grew into a DevOps team lead role for studio-wide infrastructure purposes. Encompassed the above, and internal on-premise infrastructure for building game products.
- Major works to automate and tackle drift of internal Jenkins installations.
- Worked on titles shipped: Age of Empires IV, Company of Heroes 3
Work4
DevOps Engineer
2013-2015 Paris, France
2015-2019 San Francisco, USA
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li>Improved and maintained distributed backend software in Python (Django, Celery)
- Managed web and database systems in AWS, upgrades and reliability (automation w/ Chef)
Overhauled using newer, cheaper (−⅓ cost) AWS systems on a more secure network - Short time-to-resolution w/ critical monitoring, paging (Pagerduty) & incident response proc.
- Rolled out continuous integration (w/ CircleCi) throughout the company, reducing incidents
- Drove improvements to the company's information security (e.g. password manager & policy)
- Initially joined a DevOps team of 4, eventually owning the entire web infrastructure
INIST, CNRS (FR website, EN wikipedia)
Software Engineer Intern
Nancy, France
- Worked on a REST data server based on semantic web and Node.js (Lindory), part of a Scrum team
- Took initiative for the consistency (documentation, interface) and performance (tracked and fixed memory leaks) of the project
CRAI, laboratory in architecture (FR only)
Web developer, Intern
Nancy, France
- Fully rebuilt a static website using PHP and MySQL (the Ruby Library Depot )
- Created a relational model out of static properties files and migrated content
- Drastically improved content administration and website visibility/traffic (+30% over one year)
Education
TELECOM Nancy (ESIAL) engineering school
Nancy, France
- Master of Sciences; French Engineering degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering
- Majored in Enterprise Information Systems (Big data / BI, ERPs, Production control)
IUT Nancy-Charlemagne (FR only)
Nancy, France
- Associate Degree; French Technical degree ("DUT") in Computer Science
Skills
| Proficient | AWS and Azure and their VMs, databases, networking and authentication. | Many AWS/Azure hosted services e.g. S3, SQS/SNS, built-in monitoring... | Intermediate |
| Linux systems (Debian or RedHat-based) | Windows enterprise environment | ||
| Python, PHP/HTML/CSS | Shell scripting (Bash), Java, Javascript (node.js), C, XML | ||
| Docker, Terraform, Chef, ansible, git, Perforce, Jenkins | Kubernetes, Puppet, Hashicorp Vault, Vagrant | ||
| Datadog, OpenTelemetry | Prometheus, Loki, Grafana | ||
| MySQL, MongoDB | PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Oracle DB | ||
| Agile methods, including Scrum | Analysis/modeling tools including UML, BPMN and Merise |
Personal Skills
- Bilingual English, French (native)
- Self-taught: initially learned PHP/MySQL using public web resources, in order to develop a small website for a local community (→ Com3frontières)
- Building and maintaining PCs (assembly, setup, repairs/recovery)
Hobbies and interests
- Music (piano, synthesizer), reading and movies (SciFi, animation movies)
- Interest in science, its news and discoveries. Sweet tooth for Space.
- Interest in the Japanese culture (music, anime, society, language)
- Video games (FPS, base-building/survival style games, simulation)